India and Pakistan were bracing Tuesday for a powerful blow from Mother Nature, with a tropical cyclone expected to hit the countries on Thursday.
By Arshad R. Zargar — India and Pakistan were bracing Tuesday for a powerful blow from Mother Nature, with a tropical cyclone expected to hit India's western state of Gujarat and southern parts of Pakistan on Thursday. Authorities in the two South Asian nations were evacuating people from coastal areas, halting fishing activities and deploying rescue teams in advance of Cyclone Biparjoy's arrival.
The storm, with a name that means"disaster" in the regional Bangla language, was expected to make landfall Thursday afternoon between Mandvi in Gujarat and Karachi in Pakistan packing maximum sustained winds over 80 mph with gusts over 90 mph, according to the India Meteorological Department . Pakistan's government weather agency said the winds could hit 124 mph.
A boy moves away from the seafront as high waves hit the coast in Mumbai, India, June 13, 2023, as Cyclone Biparjoy makes its way across the Arabian Sea toward the coastlines of India and Pakistan.The cyclone has"extreme damaging potential," India's weather department warned Tuesday even as the storm weakened from an"extremely severe cyclonic storm" to a"very severe cyclonic storm.
of a"nerve-racking mission" by one of its helicopter crews as they rescued people from the jackup rig Key Singapore, a self-elevating sea platform that was already being knocked about by strong cyclonic winds off the Gujarat coast.
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